Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England, and adopted by Pentecostal parents who brought her up in the nearby mill-town of Accrington. As a Northern working class girl she was not encouraged to be clever. Her adopted father was a factory worker, her mother stayed at home. There were only six books in the house, including the Bible and Cruden's Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testaments. Strangely, one of the other books was Malory's Morte d'Arthur, and it was this that started her life quest of reading and writing. The house had no bathroom either, which was fortunate because it meant that Jeanette could read her books by flashlight in the outside toilet. Reading was not much approved unless it was the Bible. Her parents intended her for the missionary field. Schooling was erratic but Jeanette had got herself into a girl's grammar school and later she read English at Oxford University. This was not an easy transition. Jeanette had left home at 16 after falling in love with another girl. While she took her A levels she lived in various places, supporting herself by evening and weekend work. In a year off to earn money, she worked as a domestic in a lunatic asylum.
After Oxford, she did odd jobs in the theatre and wrote her first novel, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, when she was 23. It was published a year later in 1985. At the same time she published a comic book with pictures, Boating For Beginners. She then worked for her publishers at the time, Pandora Press, before publishing The Passion in 1987 with Bloomsbury in the UK and Knopf in the States. At that point she became a full-time writer, publishing Sexing The Cherry in 1989, Written On The Body in 1992, Art & Lies 1994, Art Objects (essays) 1995, Gut Symmetries 1997, The World And Other Places (short stories) 1998, The.Powerbook in 2000, a book for children: The King of Capri, in 2003, and her latest novel, Lighthousekeeping in 2004. In addition she dramatised Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit for BBCTV in 1990, and wrote a TV film, Great Moments In Aviation for BBC 2 in 1994.
In 2002 she adapted her novel The PowerBook for the Royal National Theatre London, and Theatre de Chaillot, Paris. The stage version was directed by Deborah Warner, and starred Fiona Shaw, Saffron Burroughs and Pauline Lynch.
Jeanette Winterson has won various awards around the world for her fiction and adaptations, including the Whitbread Prize, UK, and the Prix d'argent, Cannes Film Festival.
She writes regularly for various UK newspapers, especially The Times and The Guardian, and her journalism can be found on the site.
Apart from her love of books, she loves cars, and at present drives a Landrover Defender 90 TD1, all black with lots of chrome and alloy, and a Porsche 911 Targa.
Jeanette Winterson lives in the country in Oxfordshire, in a seventeenth century thatched cottage on the river, and in a 1780's house she restored from derelict, in Spitalfields, London.
Innovative in style, its humour by turns punchy and tender, Jeanette Winterson’s first novel, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession. It’s a love story, too. Winterson’s adaptation of the novel was an internationally acclaimed television drama awarded a BAFTA for best drama and an RTS award in the same year; the Prix Italia; FIPA D’Argent at Cannes for best script; The Golden Gate in San Francisco and an ACE Award at the Los Angeles television festival.
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評分《橘子不是唯一的水果》是珍妮特·温特森的处女作。但在她的第一本小说中,我们可以看到她后来小说中的两个极其鲜明的特征:抒情风格的雄辩和诗意。 下面这段文字,出自于这本书的第五章《申命记:最后的律法》,是这种风格最集中最明显的体现。 时间能抹煞一切。人们遗忘,厌...
"You smell like the wind." "How do you get away from yourself?"【BBC Radio 4, 10th, 17th April 2016
评分But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.
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评分TVT 我是真的讀不懂……
评分初讀覺得晦澀難懂 但對基督教有著莫名的吸引。感動的書 心靈的旅程。我摘抄最多的一本。也許道行不夠深 有些還是不能體會。
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